Logo
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width

But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires. – George McDonald, Dollarwise Guide to California and Las Vegas, 1983, about Muir

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Redwoods
category

To whoever invented fantasy, redwood trees, and apple pie for breakfast: well done. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Category:
Redwoods
[T]he ground beneath them is a garden of fresh, exuberant ferns, lilies, gaultheria, and rhododendron. – John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897

Category:
Redwoods

There’s a beach whose waves lap near an ancient grove of redwoods—during a full moon, it throws up wishing shells. Let them lie, he told me. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Category:
Redwoods

What a generous wood! what a glorious and all-seeing Providence, to provide so liberally for the inhabitants of the Sunset Land! – W.A. Pryal, “Lumber for Hives: Some Interesting Data on the Way Lumber is

Category:
Redwoods

Random Quotes

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high. – Mariano Rajoy

Category:
finance

Im a person who likes these sort of movies… sad but moving art movies that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear. – Zach Braff

Category:
movies

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. – Arthur Henderson

Category:
War

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. – Jeffrey Kluger

Category:
Learning